Pinched Fingers Emoji
What does the Pinched Fingers emoji mean?
A playful, cartoon-style hand in the classic yellow hue, shown with the thumb and index finger held close together in a vertical position. Often called the “finger purse” or, in Italian, “ma che vuoi,” this gesture in Italy expresses frustration, disbelief, or the equivalent of “what do you want?”
A yellow right-hand emoji showing the fingertips pinched together, fingers pointing upward — a gesture widely used in Italy to mean "What do you want?"
Use it when asking a question or making a pointed clarification. It can also be used literally to indicate a small amount — a pinch of something.
Also Known As
- 🤌 Finger Purse
- 🤌 Ma Che Vuoi
Apple Name
- 🤌 Pinched Fingers
Unicode Name
- 🤌 Pinched Fingers
How does this emoji look on different platforms?
Download the Pinched Fingers emoji
Vector file from the Noto Emoji set by Google, licence CC BY 4.0.
🤌 Emoji Codes
Codepoints
U+1F90C
Shortcodes
- works in Emojipedia, Discord
For developers
| URL escape code | %F0%9F%A4%8C |
| Punycode | xn--op9h |
| Bytes (UTF-8) | F0 9F A4 8C |
| JavaScript, JSON, Java | \uD83E\uDD0C |
| C, C++, Python | \U0001f90c |
| CSS | \01F90C |
| PHP, Ruby | \u{1F90C} |
| Perl | \x{1F90C} |
| HTML hex | 🤌 |
| HTML dec | 🤌 |
Tags: finger, hand gesture, interrogation, pinched, fingers, gesture, hand, hold, huh, patience, relax, sarcastic, ugh, what
Category: People & Body
Subgroup: Finger gestures